800:173 01 9:00 MWF WRT 007 Fall Semester 1999 Probability and Statistics ********Reasonable accomodations will be made for all students with a qualified disability. All requests for accomodations from students claiming disabilities must be processed through the Office of Disability Services, 213 Student Services Center (273-2676). ************************************************** Text: Freund, J. E. and B. M. Perles. Statistics, A First Course. seventh edition. Prentice Hall. 1999. Instructor: Campbell, R. B. Wright 328. x-32447 e-mail: campbell Office hours: Unless there is excessive demand, office hours will not be restricted to specified times. You may either catch me after class, call me on the phone, or leave an e-mail message to find a time that is mutually convenient. There is some support for this course in my webspace (http://www.math.uni.edu/~campbell/probstat/). You can get to my webspace from UNI's home page by going to the College of Natural Sciences home page, the Mathematics Department home page, the faculty home page, and my home page. The material I put on the web is designed to be useful from a text browser (e.g., lynx), but there are some graphical enhancements. There will be three tests worth 100 points each and a final worth between 100 and 200 points. Tentative dates are: chapters 1,2,3 10 September 100 chapters 4,5,6,7,8 15 October 100 chapters 9,10,11 19 November 100 chapter 12, comprehensive 15 December 125? (The coverage and dates are tentative. I reserve the right to omit sections of the text and/or provide supplementary material, including material from chapters/sections not listed. In particular, type I and type II error will be presented from the perspective of conditional probability.) There will also be about 10 quizzes worth 7 points each; the best seven will be added to your point total: 49 THE FIRST QUIZ WILL BE ON August 27. There will be no make-up quizzes. There will be two assignments to create web pages worth 25 points each. You will need to use minitab for at least one of the assignments. 50 Whether homework will be collected/graded has not yet been determined. Although this is the seventh edition of this text, it is not perfect. I shall try to draw to your attention any inaccuracies I notice. You are invited to draw errata to my attention. You are also invited to correct any mistakes I make in lecture, and mistakes on my web space. Those of you who live in the residence halls and wish a more informal atmosphere to interact with faculty are reminded of the `take a professor to lunch (or breakfast or dinner)' program. Check with your local residence hall desk for details. This handout has been prepared using PC-Write. You should learn to use a word processor before you graduate. (It has been revised using the TPU texteditor on ICEMAN/COBRA/VIPER.) Probability and Statistics (800 173) was designed to give you a foundation so that you can teach elementary probabilty concepts and statistics including AP statistics in High School. We will not cover all the statistical tests which you may want to teach/use in high school. This course will be very light on data collection/experimental design which is a major emphasis of AP statistics. But this course should provide you with an understanding of the fundamental concepts so that you can learn any additional material which you are called upon to teach. University of Northern Iowa is an equal opportunity educator and employer with a comprehensive plan for affirmative action.